Improvement in wash-boilers



Patentedr Bec. 129.1871.V

in Wash Boilers. Fiyi.

minvws @y m l@ DAVID P. SULOUFF, OF MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA.`

IMPROVEMENT. IN WASH-BOILERVS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,077, dated December 19, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, Devin P. SULoUFr, of Milton, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, haveV invented an Improved Automatic Clothes-VVasher and Itinser,

of which the following is a specilieation The invention 'will be first fully described and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure l of the drawing is a longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a top View.

A represents the boiler, haring discharge-outlet a l5, a-n open vessel forming the cover thereof; and C, a pipe connecting the two. bis an opening in the top of vessel B, provided with ay stopper b. D is a stand that rest-s in the boiler and has the hooded tubes d rising vertically from allonge, dl. On this flange d1, and across the middle space inclosed thereby, are the clot-hessupports d?, and between saidvii ange and the bottom of theboiler is the diaphragm d3, apertured at points opposite to the opening of tubes d.

lhe mode of operation is as follows: rater bein g placed in the boiler, (preferably about as much as is conveniently held in vessel 13,) the clothes are packed down upon the supports cl2, the Vessel B filled with Water and made to cover the boiler, and the whole placed over the lire. As the water on the bottom of the boiler becomes vapor-ized, expands, and is held on top by the diaphragm d, it rises through tubes d with considerable force, and, under the elastic pressure ofthe steam, streams out of the upper end of the tubes and over the clothes. It again sinks and percolates through the clothes, gathering the dirt and carrying it in solution to the bottom of the boiler. The steam which has ascended to the top of the boiler and impinged against the bottom of vessel B is condensed into water and drops upon the clothes. This process goes on continuously until sufficient heat has been im parted to the water in vessel B to raise it to or nearly to the boiling point. The dirtT Water is now drawn off through the outlet a, which is then closed, While the stopper c is removed from pipe C. and also from outletb". The wann but clear water from vessel C will take' its place in the bottom of the boiler, go through the same process as before described, and thoroughly rinse the clothes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,.and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent, is

The boiler A, having vessel B on top, in cour bination with the ilanged stand D d1, having clothes-supports d2, diaphragm d3, and hooded tubes d, all arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses: DAVID P. SULOUFF.r

Taos. D. D. OURAND, SoLoN C. KEMON. (136) Aralarw orrrca 

